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2006-02-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-02-03 01:03|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (W.Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate panel or one of his staff members is one of your leaks. He devised this plan last year to "get Bush" over intelligence gathering by manufacturing issues.

The Rockefeller's are not worth the powder to blow them to hell.

Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-02-03 01:30|| 2006-02-03 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Oncce upon a time the Rockefellers were rich idealists. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller raised New York State's taxes outrageously, but gave us the nation's best roads and education system, among other things. This younger generation just wants power and to pour its bile on those it dislikes.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-03 06:17|| 2006-02-03 06:17|| Front Page Top

#3 The Rockefeller family seems to have their hand in a little of everything. Besides the World Trade Center, which was blown on Bashar Assad's birthday, they donated the land for the United Nations building...are you lurking, AQ? They also played a part in relocating Palestinians when Israel was formed in 1948, and even have scrolls stored in the basement of the Rockefeller Museum in Israel. Tales of legendary Temple treasure supposedly buried to conceal it from the Romans, the locations inscribed the ancient map in one of the Dead Sea scrolls, prompted the Palestinians to demand the return of these scrolls as part of the peace deal. The Museum is in the the pre-1967 borders. David Rockefeller seems to be in the position to do most anything, but is not under the scrutiny elected officials are. Google the family...their extensive holdings and influence sure puts them in the position to control and leak at will.

Posted by Danielle 2006-02-03 09:26|| 2006-02-03 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 "What is unique about this one particular program, among all the other sensitive NSA programs, that justifies keeping Congress in the dark?"

Now that Russ ("I think Bush probably broke the law here") Feingold is on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, I'm sure the administration will be much more willing to share sensitive information with congress.

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-02-03 09:30|| 2006-02-03 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Rockefeller, one of the few members of Congress briefed on the spy program, asked "whether the very independence of the U.S. intelligence community has been co-opted . . . by the strong, controlling hand of the White House."

Uh, I was always under the impression that the President was akin to being the CEO of the Executive Branch, so he should "control" the Executive Branch agencies, correct? Of course, I was taught this by reading the Constitution here in the "deep red" South, so whadda I know?

Negroponte said that on its current path, Iran "will likely have the capability to produce a nuclear weapon within the next decade." One year ago, Vice Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby, then director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told Congress that Iran was within five years of the capability to make a nuclear weapon. The new judgment is based on how soon Iran could produce enough highly enriched uranium for the core of an atomic bomb.

Note that that timeline depended on IRAN producing the uranium. Now that AQ Khan has been outed, maybe they can just buy some of the black market. The gov't was blamed for 9/11 for not "connecting the dots" or "thinking outside the box" on unconventional attacks, but that is just stuck on stupid to ignore the nuclear black market these days. I'm no nuclear engineer, and I'm sure it's extremely hard to transport, but I seriously doubt it can't be done, especially by goons as "devout" as the Mad Mullahs(tm).

Posted by BA 2006-02-03 10:15|| 2006-02-03 10:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Right on,BA. Negroponte is apparently another career diplomat "stuck on stupid" for only looking at state sponsored threats. Creating National Intelligence was necessary, but I hope he has lots of oversight.

Posted by Danielle 2006-02-03 10:55|| 2006-02-03 10:55|| Front Page Top

#7 I think you hit the nail on the head re: Rockerfeller, SPo'D.

Methinks the "gentleman" doth protest too much.

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